Download or read book Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Helen Nicolay written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten letter on "1775 N Street, Washington, D.C." letterhead, dated "March 23, 1918," and signed "Robert T. Lincoln." Lincoln asks Miss Nicolay if she knows anything about "some of the files of the Illinois State Journal, which your father borrowed for use in the History." Typed letter signed (TLS).

Download or read book Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Abram Wakeman written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten letter on "Hildene, Manchester, Vermont" letterhead, addressed to "A. Wakeman, Esq., 96 Water Street, New York, N.Y.," dated "September 28, 1917" and signed by "Robert T. Lincoln." Lincoln thanks Wakeman for sending him the signed photograph of Abraham Lincoln "presented to your father by Secretary Seward." He returns the photograph noting that he has one in his collection and suggesting that Wakeman might keep it for himself or "for some special use you may find." There follows a discussion of Lincoln photographs. Typed letter signed (TLS).

Download or read book Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to William W Reed written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten letter on "Pullman Building, Chicago" letterhead, dated "April 30th, 1903" and signed by "Robert T. Lincoln." Lincoln responds to a letter and telegram from W.W. Reed ("Secretary, The Art Lovers League, 80 Exchange St., Buffalo, N.Y.) written asking for his opinion on a copy of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. He states that it is not "a pleasing likeness of my father." Typed letter signed (TLS). Second letter is a copy of a typewritten letter dated May 22, 1903 to the same recipient and notes that commendations of the portrait are "a matter of personal feeling." He enclosed a photograph of his father that he thinks "is unequaled as a likeness and as a pleasing picture" (probably Alexander Garner's February 1865 portrait of Abraham Lincoln.)

Download or read book The Gettysburg Gospel written by Gabor Boritt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events surrounding Abraham Lincoln's historic speech following the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, how he responded to the politics of the time, and the importance of that speech.

Download or read book Typewritten Robert Todd Lincoln Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter is signed to Charles H. Howard acknowledging receipt of Dr. Hill's book. There are two pages permanently affixed to board for previous framing attempt.

Download or read book Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facsimile, reproduction of handwritten letter on "Phillips Exeter Academy" illustrated letterhead, dated "Dec 2d 1860," addressed "Dear Mother" and signed "Yours affectionately, R.T. Lincoln." He writes his mother with news from school, social engagements and recounts an attempt by a Republican group to get him to give a speech.

Download or read book Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Stilson Hutchins written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handwritten letter in secretarial hand headed "Washington, D.C. March 8th 1885" and signed by "Robert T. Lincoln." Addressed to Stilson Hutchins in Washington, D.C. Marked "Personal" in Lincoln's hand, Lincoln thanks Hutchins for "the manner in which you corrected in the 'Post" of this morning the statement of yesterday respecting the issuing of General Grant's commission." He references confusion with the new president (Cleveland) and new secretary of war (Endicott) and the signing of the commission. Letter signed (ALS).

Download or read book The Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln written by Helen Duprey Bullock and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln written by Michael Burlingame and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Nicolay, who had known Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, served as chief White House secretary from 1861 to 1865. Trained as a journalist, Nicolay had hoped to write a campaign biography of Lincoln in 1860, a desire that was thwarted when an obscure young writer named William Dean Howells got the job. Years later, however, Nicolay fulfilled his ambition; with John Hay, he spent the years from 1872 to 1890 writing a monumental ten-volume biography of Lincoln. In preparation for this task, Nicolay interviewed men who had known Lincoln both during his years in Springfield and later when he became the president of the United States. "When it came time to write their massive biography, however," Burlingame notes, "he and Hay made sparing use of the interviews" because they had become "skeptical about human memory." Nicolay and Hay also feared that Robert Todd Lincoln might censor material that reflected "poorly on Lincoln or his wife." Nicolay had interviewed such Springfield friends as Lincoln’s first two law partners, John Todd Stuart and Stephen T. Logan. At the Illinois capital in June and July 1875, he talked to a number of others including Orville H. Browning, U.S. senator and Lincoln’s close friend and adviser for over thirty-five years, and Ozias M. Hatch, Lincoln’s political ally and Springfield neighbor. Four years later he returned briefly and spoke with John W. Bunn, a young political "insider" from Springfield at the time Lincoln was elected president, and once again with Hatch. Browning shed new light on Lincoln’s courtship and marriage, telling Nicolay that Lincoln often told him "that he was constantly under great apprehension lest his wife should do something which would bring him into disgrace" while in the White House. During their research, Nicolay and Hay also learned of Lincoln’s despondency and erratic behavior following his rejection by Matilda Edwards, and they were subsequently criticized by friends for suppressing the information. Burlingame argues that this open discussion of Lincoln’s depression of January 1841 is "perhaps the most startling new information in the Springfield interviews." Briefer and more narrowly focused than the Springfield interviews, the Washington interviews deal with the formation of Lincoln’s cabinet, his relations with Congress, his behavior during the war, his humor, and his grief. In a reminiscence by Robert Todd Lincoln, for example, we learn of Lincoln’s despair at General Lee's escape after the Battle of Gettysburg: "I went into my father’s office ... and found him in [much] distress, his head leaning upon the desk in front of him, and when he raised his head there were evidences of tears upon his face. Upon my asking the cause of his distress he told me that he had just received the information that Gen. Lee had succeeded in escaping across the Potomac river. . ." To supplement these interviews, Burlingame has included Nicolay’s unpublished essays on Lincoln during the 1860 campaign and on Lincoln’s journey from Springfield to Washington in 1861, essay’s based on firsthand testimony.

Download or read book Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Gen James H Wilson written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handwritten letter in secretarial hand on "War Department, Washington City" letterhead, dated "June 21st 1883" and signed by "Robert T. Lincoln." Lincoln acknowledges receipt of a letter Wilson had written (as President of the Norwich and New York Transportation Company) regarding the dangerous navigation on a portion of the East River in New York City. Lincoln refers him to a report by Col. John Newton of the Corps of Engineers regarding that section of the river. Docketed on verso "Robert T. Lincoln, June 21, 1883, Improvement of East River" and stamped "This paper belongs in Envelope N21." Letter signed (LS).

Download or read book Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Gen R D Mussey written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten letter on "Isham, Lincoln & Beale, Counselors, etc., Honore Buildings, Chicago," dated "May 4, 1887" and signed by "Robert T. Lincoln." Lincoln writes to General Mussey of Washington, D.C. declining an invitation from the Society of the Army of the Cumberland to be present at a reunion when the statue of President Garfield is unveiled. Letterhead inscription is crossed out and written in a different hand is "From Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, President Garfield's Secretary of War." Letter signed (LS).

Download or read book Letter to Robert Todd Lincoln from Allen C Clark written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten letter on "Allen C. Clark, Attorney at Law, 816 Fourteenth Street, Washington, D.C." letterhead, addressed to "Hon. Robert T. Lincoln," dated "March 26, 1917" and signed by "Allen C. Clark." "I am sending two extracts relative to your father's residence." Included are two extracts, handwritten in pencil on yellow, lined legal paper, and a signed photograph. The articles are "Abraham Lincoln in Congress" by Charles Oscar Paullin (Washington Herald, January 24, 1909) and "Pictures of the City of Washington in the past" by Dr. Samuel C. Busey (who had been a fellow boarder of Abraham Lincoln's when he was in Congress).

Download or read book Lincoln s Generals written by Gabor S. Boritt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment the battle ended, Gettysburg was hailed as one of the greatest triumphs of the Union army. Celebrations erupted across the North as a grateful people cheered the victory. But Gabor Boritt turns our attention away from the rejoicing millions to the dark mood of the White House--where Lincoln cried in frustration as General Meade let the largest Confederate army escape safely into Virginia. Such unexpected portraits abound in Lincoln's Generals, as a team of distinguished historians probes beyond the popular anecdotes and conventional wisdom to offer a fascinating look at Lincoln's relationship with his commanders. In Lincoln's Generals, Boritt and his fellow contributors examine the interaction between the president and five key generals: McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, and Grant. In each chapter, the authors provide new insight into this mixed bag of officers and the president's tireless efforts to work with them. Even Lincoln's choice of generals was not as ill-starred as we think, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark E. Neely, Jr.: compared to most Victorian-era heads of state, he had a fine record of selecting commanders (for example, the contemporary British gave us such bywords for incompetence as "the charge of the Light Brigade," while Napoleon III managed to lose the entire French army). But the president's relationship with his generals was never easy. In these pages, Stephen Sears underscores McClellan's perverse obstinancy as Lincoln tried everything to drive him ahead. Neely sheds new light on the president's relationship with Hooker, arguing that he was wrong to push the general to attack at Chancellorsville. Boritt writes about Lincoln's prickly relationship with the victor of Gettysburg, "old snapping turtle" George Meade. Michael Fellman reveals the political stress between the White House and William T. Sherman, a staunch conservative who did not want blacks in his army but who was crucial to the war effort. And John Y. Simon looks past the legendary camaraderie between Lincoln and Grant to reveal the tensions in their relationship. Perhaps no other episode has been more pivotal in the nation's history than the Civil War--and yet so much of these massive events turned on a few distinctive personalities. Lincoln's Generals is a brilliant portrait that takes us inside the individual relationships that shaped the course of our most costly war.

Download or read book The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln s Widow as Revealed by Her Own Letters written by Myra Helmer Pritchard and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters is based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra Bradwell mainly during the former's 1875 incarceration in an insane asylum. By the 1920s most accounts of Mrs. Lincoln focused on her negative qualities and dismissed her as "crazy." Bradwell's granddaughter Myra Helmer Pritchard wrote this distinctly sympathetic manuscript at the behest of her mother, who wished to vindicate Mary Lincoln in the public eye by printing the private correspondence. Pritchard fervently defends Mrs. Lincoln's conduct and sanity, arguing that she was not insane but rather the victim of an overzealous son who had his mother committed. The manuscript and letters were thought to have been destroyed, but fortunately the Lincolns' family lawyer stored copies in a trunk, where historian Jason Emerson discovered them in 2005. While leaving the manuscript intact, Emerson has enhanced it with an introduction and detailed annotations. He fills in factual gaps; provides background on names, places, and dates; and analyzes Pritchard's interpretations, making clear where she was right and where her passion to protect Mrs. Lincoln led to less than meticulous research and incorrect conclusions. This volume features an easy-to-follow format that showcases Pritchard's text on the left-hand pages and Emerson's insightful annotations on the right-hand pages. Following one of the most revered and reviled, famous and infamous of the First Ladies, this book provides a unique perspective of Mrs. Lincoln's post-White House years, with an emphasis on her commitment to a sanitarium. Emerson's contributions make this volume a valuable addition to the study of the Lincoln family. This fascinating work gives today's Lincoln enthusiasts the chance to read this intriguing interpretation of the former First Lady that predates nearly every other book written about her.

Download or read book Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Gen William B Franklin written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handwritten letter in secretarial hand on "War Department, Washington City" letterhead, dated "July 14th 1881" and signed by "Robert T. Lincoln." Lincoln indicates that he has received a resolution of the Board of Managers releasing funds for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers but that he cannot issue a requisition until he has a letter from General Franklin as president of the home. Docketed on verso. Letter signed (LS).

Download or read book Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Daniel Fish written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handwritten letter on "Hildene, Manchester, Vermont" letterhead, dated "October 30, 1919" and signed by "Robert T. Lincoln." Lincoln continues to discuss early processes of making photographs Judge Fish, trying to establish a connection between Fish's photograph of Abraham Lincoln and others. Autograph letter signed (ALS).

Download or read book Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Mrs Loveland Munson written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten letter on "3014 N Street, Washington, D.C." letterhead, dated "February 23, 1922," and signed by "Robert T. Lincoln." Lincoln responds to Mrs. Munson's concerns about the Mark Skinner Library and especially one of the board members who is also the son of the founder. He also comments on Mrs. Munson's visit to Springfield, Illinois and his own relation to the town. Envelope is addressed to "Mrs. Loveland Munson, 72 Alleghany Street, Boston, (20) Massachusetts" and is stamped and franked. Typed letter signed (TLS).